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Congratulations to past champion Eddie Mintz on winning his second SSO Championship this month by defeating another past champion Pete Kaczmarczyk in the final match of 279 to 191. Eddie qualified in 20th position just 12 pins from missing the regular cut line with a 6 game total of 1286 and an average of 214. Eddie saved his highest game for the final match. He advanced to the second round of Eliminations by just 10 pins but averaged better than 238 in the 5 games of the Elimination rounds.

Congratulations also goes out to Pete Kaczmarczyk on his second place finish. Pete qualified slighty higher than Eddie in 15th with a total pin fall of 1294 and an average of 216 for his first 6 games. Pete started qualifying with back to back 245 games and in the Elimination rounds had back to back 248 games. Unfortunately Pete saved his lowest game for the final match, however Eddie with not to be denied when throwing 11 out of 12 possible strikes in the finals.

There were 20 super seniors, 6 super super seniors in attendance with one female bowler and there were three bowlers that did not finish. In our Elimination Rounds there were 28 bowlers. We had 6 SS, 1 SSS and one female. along with the rest of our seniors. This provided a little better than 1 in 3 cashing ratio for the tournament.

The Tournament average this weekend was 196 with 3 DNF's . It took a total of 1287 and an average of 215 or better to make our regular cut line set by Mostafa Nejatbakhsh. High Qualifier was Todd Sim with 1403 and an average of 234 after his 6 games.

There were two regular seniors, three super seniors and 1 super, super seniors and 1 frmale below the cut line that advanced to Eliminations. Joe Smart and Mike Snow were the two regular seniors, Sandy Schultz, Richard Kurt and Sam Girgenti were our 3 super seniors below the cut line. Only one SSS can advance below the cut line and the top SSS was Ed Austreng advancing by just 2 pins over Dave Berhardt and only 5 pins over Nick Beelaard making for a very close fight to advance by those three SSS bowlers.

There were no honor scores but both Gary Schluchter and Joe Smart had 280 games.

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